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PA TV host visits family of "heroic prisoner" responsible for murder of 3 teens

Official PA TV program Giants of Endurance praises terrorist prisoner Othman Younes, who was involved in the murder of 3 and several other attacks and was sentenced to 4 life sentences, as a “heroic prisoner”
Official PA TV host: “Allow me to go on to the sister of heroic prisoner Othman Younes, be well my sister. Othman [was sentenced to] 4 life sentences and he is also a sick prisoner who suffers from a serious medical condition.”


Screenshot shows the sister of terrorist prisoner Othman Younes.
Text on screen: "Sister of heroic prisoner Othman Younes"


Screenshot shows the mother of terrorist prisoner Othman Younes.
Text on screen: "Mother of heroic prisoner Othman Younes"
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Othman Younes – a terrorist of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (Fatah’s military wing) who sent a terrorist to infiltrate the Jewish town of Itamar southeast of Nablus on May 28, 2002. The terrorist entered a high school yeshiva (Jewish religious studies academy) in the town and murdered 3 teenagers – Netanel Riachi (17), Gilad Stiglitz (14), and Avraham Siton (17) – before being shot and killed by a security guard. Younes was sentenced in 2004 and is serving 4 life sentences for the attack, as well as for his involvement in a number of shooting attacks in which Israelis were wounded, and placing explosives at roads in the West Bank.

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